This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smb: client: handle path separator of created SMB symlinks to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: smb-client-handle-path-separator-of-created-smb-syml.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 08b97675e0836f652bba699030ca65487fd0ce56 Author: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Feb 11 20:19:31 2024 -0300 smb: client: handle path separator of created SMB symlinks [ Upstream commit 8bde59b20de06339d598e8b05e5195f7c631c38b ] Convert path separator to CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb) from symlink target before sending it over the wire otherwise the created SMB symlink may become innaccesible from server side. Fixes: 514d793e27a3 ("smb: client: allow creating symlinks via reparse points") Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c index 23cf6e92fd54c..9ade347978709 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c @@ -5212,7 +5212,7 @@ static int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *new; struct kvec iov; __le16 *path; - char *sym; + char *sym, sep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb); u16 len, plen; int rc = 0; @@ -5226,7 +5226,8 @@ static int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, .symlink_target = sym, }; - path = cifs_convert_path_to_utf16(symname, cifs_sb); + convert_delimiter(sym, sep); + path = cifs_convert_path_to_utf16(sym, cifs_sb); if (!path) { rc = -ENOMEM; goto out; @@ -5249,7 +5250,10 @@ static int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, buf->PrintNameLength = cpu_to_le16(plen); memcpy(buf->PathBuffer, path, plen); buf->Flags = cpu_to_le32(*symname != '/' ? SYMLINK_FLAG_RELATIVE : 0); + if (*sym != sep) + buf->Flags = cpu_to_le32(SYMLINK_FLAG_RELATIVE); + convert_delimiter(sym, '/'); iov.iov_base = buf; iov.iov_len = len; new = smb2_get_reparse_inode(&data, inode->i_sb, xid,